Amit Nandan Singh

Learner . Dreamer . Doer . Explorer . Enabler Innovator . Educator.

Founder: Curious

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Wisdom @TalebWisdom]

"The book is the only medium left that hasn’t been corrupted by the profane: everything else on your eyelids manipulates you with an ad." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Wisdom @TalebWisdom]

"Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur." - @nntaleb

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Wisdom @TalebWisdom]

"History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script that produces events, the generator of history." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Black Swan

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Wisdom @TalebWisdom]

"For so many, instead of looking for “cause of death” when they expire, we should be looking for “cause of life” when they are still around." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes

[Daily Stoic @dailystoic]

"He who indulges empty fears earns himself real fears." Seneca

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Wisdom @TalebWisdom]

"A book is something that can be read ten years after publication. A real book, twenty. Otherwise it is a magazine report with bookbinding." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

[Mo Zarrinsadaf @MoZarrinsadaf]

"In a conflict, the middle ground is least likely to be correct."
@nntaleb

[Naval Ravikant Quotes @QuotesOfNaval]

"The more easily you get offended, the less intelligent you actually are." -@naval

[Mo Zarrinsadaf @MoZarrinsadaf]

It’s preparation, not prediction, that shapes our future in an uncertain world.

[Adam James Pollock @AdamPollock]

Normalise sitting outside the café all day and not really doing anything

[Amit Nandan Singh @curious_ans]

@nntaleb Great. I had lost your Hardbound collection during transit. Time to get fresh prints again!

[Henry Mintzberg @Mintzberg141]

To be at the top of an organization is to be out of it.

#ThinkingOnThursday #quote

[Mo Zarrinsadaf @MoZarrinsadaf]

You can’t please everyone.

Different people want different things.

Be authentic and those who like to follow your lead, will follow you.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

You must come to grips with the fact that history may, of all alternatives, take the most irrational path, that is, the one that makes the least amount of sense to educated & neutral observers.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

I am tired of people who say that I can voice my opinion because I am free; I am free because I never hid my opinion, no matter the cost.

h/t @Klasssiks

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Almost everything the West says about its enemies is correct. But almost everything these enemies say about the West is also correct.

[Mo Zarrinsadaf @MoZarrinsadaf]

"Rituals are the music of life."
@nntaleb

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

The United States is so structurally dependent on cheap labor from "illegal" immigration that any sudden restriction would, in a nonlinear way, lead to explosive inflation.

[Mo Zarrinsadaf @MoZarrinsadaf]

"They think that intelligence is about noticing things that are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns)."
@nntaleb

[The Stoic Emperor @TheStoicEmperor]

The most criticized people of our time don’t have to spend money on marketing.

Their haters keep them top of mind every day.